When they were growing up, teenage sunbathers, who are now women in their 30s and early 40s, were told by their mothers that they would look like a cross between Elephant Man and a swamp alligator if they got too much sun. Age spots, rough texture and fine lines would make them recognizable only if they wore nametags.

Hats off to nagging mothers! A Mt. Kisco, New York dermatologist tells More magazine, “I see a number of these women who I calculate to be younger than they actually are. And certainly most look better than their mothers did.”